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Outstanding Peace Corps Leaders Were Honored with Kennedy Service Awards in Boston on March 4, 2006
Established in honor of 45 years of Peace Corps service to the global community, the awards are given every five years to six notable individuals: two current volunteers, two returned volunteers, and two Peace Corps staff members who help further the agency’s goals and mission through their commitment to world peace and friendship.

Peace Corps volunteers Scott Overdyke (Panama) and Barbara Schlieper (Ukraine); Peace Corps staff members William Bull (Madagascar) and Munkhjin Tsogt (Mongolia) and returned Peace Corps volunteers Tony Gasbarro (Dominican Republic and El Salvador) and Roland Foulkes (Ghana) were presented the Kennedy Service Awards.

Peace Corps Honors Members of Congress on March 4, 2006
Former volunteers include five current members of the U.S. House of Representatives and one senator, all of whom were honored by Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez, who presented them with Peace Corps public service awards during a ceremony in Washington March 1.

The recipients were: Senator Christopher Dodd (Democrat of Connecticut), Dominican Republic, who served in the Peace Corps from 1966 to 1968; Representative Sam Farr (Democrat of California), Colombia, 1964-1966; Representative Michael Honda (Democrat of California), El Salvador, 1965-1967; Representative Thomas Petri (Republican of Wisconsin), Somalia, 1966-1967; Representative Christopher Shays (Republican of Connecticut), Fiji, 1968-1970; and Representative James Walsh (Republican of New York), Nepal, 1970-1972.

Two other lawmakers received public service awards for their long-term support of the Peace Corps: House Committee on International Relations Chairman Henry Hyde (Republican of Illinois) and Subcommittee on Foreign Operations Chairman Jim Kolbe (Republican of Arizona).

New Book of Peace Corps Stories Now Available
The latest book of Peace Corps stories, "A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service," is a tapestry of stories from Director Vasquez as well as Peace Corps volunteers in Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Moldova, Nepal, Panama, Paraguay, Samoa, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uzbekistan and Zambia.

The book can be purchased for $15.95 in bookstores or on the Government Printing Office's Web site. It can also be borrowed from your local library or found at local recruitment events.

Crisis Corps
To date, more than 650 Crisis Corps Volunteers have served in over 40 countries in Latin America, Africa, the Pacific, Asia , and Eastern Europe and 272 have been deployed domestically in the areas of:

HIV/AIDS Initiative Natural Disaster Relief and Reconstruction Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Humanitarian Assistance Post-Conflict Relief and Reconstruction